Dan Flavin

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Description

Dan Flavin
white around a corner
cool white fluorescent light
Height: 96 in. 243.8 cm.
Conceived in 1965 and fabricated in 1967, this work is unique, number 1 from an unrealized edition of 3, and is accompanied by a letter of authenticity issued by the Estate of Dan Flavin.

Provenance

Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1985

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Dan Flavin, December 1966
New York, Kornblee Gallery, Dan Flavin, January - February 1967

Literature

Exh. Cat., Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Turned On, 1965, n.p., checklist [according to The Complete Lights, this work's inclusion in the exhibition is not confirmed]
Fidel A. Danieli, "Los Angeles: Dan Flavin, Nicholas Wlder Gallery", Artforum, February 1967, vol. 5, no. 6, p. 63
Elizabeth C. Baker, "The Light Brigade", Art News, vol. 66, no. 1, March 1967, p. 52, illustrated (installation view from the Kornblee Gallery)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, A New Aesthetic, 1967, p. 40, illustrated (installation view from the Kornblee Gallery)
Mel Bochner, "Serial Art, Systems: Solipsism", Arts Magazine, vol. 41, no. 8, Summer 1967, p. 43, illustrated (installation view from the Kornblee Gallery)
Sol LeWitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Artforum, vol. 5, no. 10, Summer 1967, p. 82, illustrated (installation view from the Kornblee Gallery)
Dan Flavin, "some other comments... more pages from a spleenish journal", Artforum, vol. 6, no. 4, December 1967, p. 25, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada (and traveling), fluorescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin, 1969, p. 225, fig. 10, illustrated (installation view from the Kornblee Gallery) and illustration of the artist's sketch for the installation
Exh. Cat., St. Louis Art Museum, drawings and diagrams from Dan Flavin 1963 - 1972, 1973, p. 56
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (and traveling), Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961 - 1996, 2005, cat. no. 98, p. 247, color illustration of diagram

Catalogue Note

``Flavin does something for one’s idea of light: it is he who makes its mystical qualities uncompromisingly evident.” (Elizabeth C.Baker, Art News, March 1967)